Planescape Planescape IS D&D Says Jeremy Crawford

Planescape is Jeremy Crawford's favourite D&D setting. "It is D&D", he says, as he talks about how in the 2024 core rulebook updates Planescape will be more up front and center as "the setting of settings".

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[Micah Sweet]

Well sure. Almost by definition you don't need external sources to homebrew. They can be helpful though.

My take is that 5e is great at encouraging homebrewing, but less good at supporting it. Plenty (most?) of 5e material is written with the assumption that DMs will steal bits and pieces of it to use for their own campaigns. And, in my opinion, the 5e DMG does a better job of supporting homebrew campaigns than any previous DMG. But since the DMG, we haven't seen as much material specifically supporting homebrew campaigns, at least compared to previous editions.

I really wonder if the 2024 DMG is going to be as encouraging of homebrew as the 2014 DMG is. Homebrew doesn't help their top priority of getting every gamer to buy every one of their books and so maximize their shareholders profits for the "undermonitized" game of D&D. If anything it does the opposite.

 

[Perky the Dragon]

I'm not actually too bothered by the Outlands theoretically being the default setting, if the jacked up the gonzo 1000%.

It would be nice to see some worldbooks, but that doesn't seem to in their purview anymore.

In an ideal world, I'd love to see WOTC get the writers of the Radiant Citadel together, and get them to collaborate and create a setting together.

 

[Retros_x]

I realize this is an ongoing conversation here, and it's not just @Retros_x, but . . . "default" and "implied" do not have the same meaning. Not in the dictionary, and not when referring to fantasy settings for the D&D game.

Of course these two words don't have the same meaning - I never claimed that - but they are related. In this context if a specific setting is implied, because a monster lore text reads for example "Goblins pray to their god Maglubiyet", than this setting that is referenced here, is the default. Or the other way around if you have a default setting, you don't need to name it explicit everytime you are referencing it, the implication is enough. The rest of your comment reads like you are the one who actually has a quite specific definition of the word "implied" in your mind which is very different from how it is used in common expressions.

IMO this whole "implied setting" is just smoke and mirrors to obscure that you are actually talking about the genre, not the setting. A setting is a defined fictive time and space to frame the narrative of the game, and its build by concretizing the tropes or their subversions that a genre provides. Both setting and genre can be referenced explicitly or implicitly in descriptions.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Yes they were written by Ed Greenwood and notorious for how out of character Mordenkainen and Dalamar (not Raistlin) were as well as getting basic facts about their home settings wrong.

When reading them at the time they were published, they were among the best recurring articles in the magazine, and I don't remember any instances of Greenwood getting Mordenkainen or Dalamar (or their settings) wrong.

 

[thenightgaunt]

Planescape is Jeremy Crawford's favourite D&D setting. "It is D&D", he says, as he talks about how in the 2024 core rulebook updates Planescape will be more up front and center as "the setting of settings".

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Yeah, but to be fair he sounded a bit high that entire interview. Like he didn't know anything about the setting but knew enough to basically blather on for 10 minutes about nothing.

 

[darjr]

I may actually run this for new players. Not sure if it’ll be TOV though.

 

[Reynard]

I may actually run this for new players. Not sure if it’ll be TOV though.

What does "TOV" mean?

 

[darjr]

What does "TOV" mean?

Kobold Press Tales of the Valiant.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

When reading them at the time they were published, they were among the best recurring articles in the magazine, and I don't remember any instances of Greenwood getting Mordenkainen or Dalamar (or their settings) wrong.

Is Dalamar a drow who lives underground and “raids the surface folk”? Is Mordenkainen a drunken womaniser? Not outside of these stories they aren’t. The Dalamar one is particularly egregious.

 

[pemerton]

This pedantic nonsense has been brought to you by the letter mu.

But have you considered . . . is it pedantic nonsense, or nonsensical pedantry?